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Airline passengers have spoken and selected Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways as 2014's best airline and Singapore Airlines as the best first-class cabins, according to Skytrax Awards handed out Tuesday. The awards, presented at the Farnborough International Airshow in Britain, are based on data gathered from more than 18 million customer passenger surveys from August 2013 to May 2014, a Skytrax statement says. People from more than 105 countries weighed in on their travel experiences in the air and on the ground. No U.S. carriers ranked in the top 20 airlines for 2014. Cathay Pacific, founded in 1946 by an American and an Australian, was selected as Skytrax's...

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